Hold on there. How can you call faking data a third level of plagiarism?
Who did they copy from?
I’d call this something different – perhaps FRAUD.
Mike
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There are knuckle-headed ideas that were never scientific or tried to pass as scientific. Although the connection was not made and other connections could be made, idiotic ideas from anywhere are plagiarism. Proving them in the lab fraudulently is crazier yet.
Who was it compiled a book on things that show IQ etc like the shape of your head? If your head is broad at the temple and pointed at the chin you have a much higher IQ level. I have seen smarter bus drivers than that scientist.
Health professionals and journal editors reading the results of a clinical trial assume that the trial happened and that the results were honestly reported. But about 20% of the time, said Ben Mol, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash Health, they would be wrong…
As he described in a webinar last week, Ian Roberts, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, began to have doubts about the honest reporting of trials after a colleague asked if he knew that his systematic review showing the mannitol halved death from head injury was based on trials that had never happened. He didn’t, but he set about investigating the trials and confirmed that they hadn’t ever happened. They all had a lead author who purported to come from an institution that didn’t exist and who killed himself a few years later. The trials were all published in prestigious neurosurgery journals and had multiple co-authors. None of the co-authors had contributed patients to the trials, and some didn’t know that they were co-authors until after the trials were published. When Roberts contacted one of the journals the editor responded that “I wouldn’t trust the data.” Why, Roberts wondered, did he publish the trial? None of the trials have been retracted.
DB2
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After being inundated by the media conveying “news” of a study by the Chocolate Institute that said everyone should eat more chocolate, or the study by the Coffee Institute that said everyone should drink more coffee, does this surprise anyone? Or the “leak” of encouraging “news” about the Moderna COVID vax, juicing the stock just in time for the honcho’s planned stock sales to benefit?
Steve…(singing “advertising, dressed up as news”)
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